Schwippschwager, Schwappschwager, Schwipp-Schwapp-Schwager

More on unusual Verwandtschaftsbeziehungen... the German word for "brother-in-law" is "Schwager", and there's also a word for the sibling or spouse of one of those, namely "Schwippschwager".

Now when I was little, the grown-ups would occasionally speak of not just the "Schwippschwager" but also the "Schwappschwager", supposedly "removed" by one extra degree. Indeed, there was even talk of the "Schwippschwappschwager" (or "Schwipp-Schwapp-Schwager"), though I'm not sure this wasn't in jest. I've been wondering what precisely these mean ever since, so I decided to take a look.

As far as German media go, the Schwappschwager is attested to in Die ZEIT, at least, which writes, in the context of Graeco-Roman mythology:

Interesting, but not yet helpful. And DWDS has no information on the Schwappschwager beyond the aforementioned ZEIT article.

What about the next one, the Schwipp-Schwapp-Schwager? That one briefly shows up in a self-published book titled "Ritter Anus - das Leben ist ein Donnerbalken"; Google Books has it indexed, and shares the following passage:

It makes a further cameo appearance in e.g. this post in a Spiegel discussion forum; but like Morgenstern's "Stiefmilchbruder", it appears to refer to a comically absurd family relationship rather than an actual one:

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Hmm, good question! It doesn't mean anything to me in German right away, but that's not saying much.

Some web-searching doesn't reveal much – it's a pretty rare name –, but there's this forum thread, where various explanations are considered.

According to one user, the name might stem from carpentry and indicate a specific job that someone was doing; another one think that this is unlikely based on its rarity, and instead hypothesizes that it could refer to a certain location where the first bearers of the name lived (and "-stette" could be equivalent to "Stätte", "location"). Possibly it refers to Schülp, or a supposed (?) former district of the town of Herzebrock-Clarholz.

The executive summary — it's not clear where exactly the name comes from or what it means, but it doesn't have any obvious, outright meaning, no.

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I thought if spanish came rather naturally to me (i even have a really good spanish accent to where i've talked to a few people entirely in spanish), so would italian. I took a semester of italian but you would think it'd be easy given how similar they are but i just couldn't pick up on italian like i did spanish. :(